All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[worstblogever]

Even Bloefeld knew to use an IN-active volcano.

[scourge]

A further messed up question is whether on trans issues, people on the left are weaponizing the threat of suicide in ways that are harmful. It's important to note that this is not done intentionally, nor is this everyone on the left.

You may not be familiar with this one, but after Trump's election there was a bullshit meme about someone in a trans parent support group learning about multiple suicides. There is no evidence this occurred, but the urban legend spread.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...2016-election/

The most generous interpretation is that people made stories normalizing suicide to score political points. The worst is that it was intentional trolling of members and loved ones of a minority group with high suicide rates.

It seems to me that there is a very harmful conversation about trans issues which could encourage troubled children and adults to believe that they can send a message by taking their own lives. The potential consequences are terrible.

No one should believe that they are more valuable as a dead martyr than when they are alive.

And yet such a thing would not be an "issue" if not for all the transphobic BS making the lives of trans people and their families harder...

[Malvolio]

I said "trans surgery after 18", some of the other posters even acknowledged that there are other treatments that can be done - and are done - before that

And if those treatments were not enough, would you then be okay with trans surgery for individuals under 18?

[Ragged Maw]

I wonder how many plastic surgeons in L.A. are now advertising boob jobs as "lifesaving procedures" under the notion of compromised self esteem being as much an imminent danger as, say, mortal gunshot wounds? It's kind of stretching, even if addressing the umbrella of mental/psychological health issues people across the country grapple with remains an important conversation.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Even Bloefeld knew to use an IN-active volcano.

Look.

The volcano you have is never the volcano you want.

[Catlady in training]

Why in the name of sanity would you put a nuclear power plant on an island with an active volcano?!

That's what I thought. I guess money is fine as the go to answer. Power plant=power=money.

A further messed up question is whether on trans issues, people on the left are weaponizing the threat of suicide in ways that are harmful. It's important to note that this is not done intentionally, nor is this everyone on the left.

You may not be familiar with this one, but after Trump's election there was a bullshit meme about someone in a trans parent support group learning about multiple suicides. There is no evidence this occurred, but the urban legend spread.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...2016-election/

The most generous interpretation is that people made stories normalizing suicide to score political points. The worst is that it was intentional trolling of members and loved ones of a minority group with high suicide rates.

It seems to me that there is a very harmful conversation about trans issues which could encourage troubled children and adults to believe that they can send a message by taking their own lives. The potential consequences are terrible.

No one should believe that they are more valuable as a dead martyr than when they are alive.

That doesn't track. People on the right who are the ones that need to be persuaded don't care at all if some stranger dies. Just think about the anti-abortion laws and anti-mask, anti-vax crowd.

[babyblob]

A further messed up question is whether on trans issues, people on the left are weaponizing the threat of suicide in ways that are harmful. It's important to note that this is not done intentionally, nor is this everyone on the left.

You may not be familiar with this one, but after Trump's election there was a bullshit meme about someone in a trans parent support group learning about multiple suicides. There is no evidence this occurred, but the urban legend spread.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tr...2016-election/

The most generous interpretation is that people made stories normalizing suicide to score political points. The worst is that it was intentional trolling of members and loved ones of a minority group with high suicide rates.

It seems to me that there is a very harmful conversation about trans issues which could encourage troubled children and adults to believe that they can send a message by taking their own lives. The potential consequences are terrible.

No one should believe that they are more valuable as a dead martyr than when they are alive.

I have honestly yet to see or hear about a Trans Suicide where the motivation was to be a martyr for the cause. Feeling like they have no way out? Feeling the hate and the mocking and the attacks both mental and pohysical? Having the fear of not being accepted or if their parents do accept them then their parents going to jail and them being taking away? I am pretty sure those motivations happen a lot more the "Hey I cant wait to be a martyr for the cause!"

The problem is people hate talking about Trans suicide. Because A they dont believe/care that it is happening. They want to ignore it and downplay it. B they are very uncomfortable with the subject C Just dont care about some Trans killing themselves.

[Tami]

A Trump-Backed Veteran Ran Hard to the Right, Only to Be Outflanked

Joe Kent, a square-jawed Trump devotee running for a House seat in Washington State, is in a bit of a pickle.

Kent has campaigned as a “Stop the Steal”-style candidate on Donald Trump’s “America First” platform, positions that apparently caught the eye of the former president, who has endorsed him.

Kent insists the 2020 election was rigged, and has rationalized the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, by claiming that an otherwise peaceful crowd was infiltrated by Deep State agents provocateurs. In September, he spoke at a rally in Washington, D.C., in support of people accused of storming the Capitol, urging the release of what he called “political prisoners.”

But in recent weeks, far-right figures led by Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who has spoken admiringly of Adolf Hitler, have started an online drumbeat claiming that Kent, a retired Green Beret and C.I.A. paramilitary officer who has a fistful of Bronze Stars, is actually a deep-state denizen himself.

Kent’s wife, Shannon, was a targeting specialist for the National Security Agency who was killed by a suicide bomber in northeast Syria in 2019 while fighting the Islamic State.

After her death, he wrote about how his experiences in the Special Forces had made him more skeptical of “pointless or unwinnable wars.” On his arm is a tattoo inscribed with the date of her killing, along with an image of the World Trade Center aflame after the Sept. 11 attacks.

None of that has earned Kent a reprieve from fringe critics seeking to turn his military service into a campaign liability.

There’s even a website, joekentiscia.com, which opens with the following accusation in all capital letters: “JOE KENT IS AN AGENT OF THE DEEP STATE, A CARPETBAGGER, A LIFELONG MARXIST DEMOCRAT RINO AND A CORRUPT OPPORTUNIST.”

Oh boy......when you think it can't get any worse........

[Mister Mets]

Says the guy who insists he doesn't reflexively defend Republicans, or even like Trump.



Thank you for correcting the record, and I'll add that the reason it only was 71 days was because a whistleblower investigation started that smarter people in the Trump administration than him (low bar to clear) start making the money move before the attempt to illegally bribe Ukraine for a favor looked even worse.

Like, we do remember things that aren't January 6th. It was four years of a f***ing nightmare, and sometimes, it's hard to remember every stupid thing in there... but nobody's forgetting the s*** that actually got him impeached.

If you believe I said anything inaccurate, I'll take a correction.

But your response is agnostic on the merits.

It's important to be accurate.

If someone is reading this, and gets the impression you guys think aide to Ukraine was delayed until Biden's presidency, they may be less inclined to believe anything you have to say about other issues when they learn that the delay was resolved by September 2019. This is not to suggest that Trump acted appropriately. But it doesn't benefit anyone to leave the wrong impression.

[Mister Mets]

Blocked July 3rd, released September 11th. That's 71 days, and doesn't include the Trump administration slow walking or putting up other internal roadblocks after the fact.

But it still doesn't dispute the overall point of Putin seeing his window closing.

The Center For Public Integrity says 55 days in the first paragraph. It seems to be based on when they were supposed to get the aid. It's not as if they were going to get it on July 3rd.

[Iron Maiden]

Even Bloefeld knew to use an IN-active volcano.

Wasn't that Dr. No with the volcanic island?

[Tendrin]

I have honestly yet to see or hear about a Trans Suicide where the motivation was to be a martyr for the cause. Feeling like they have no way out? Feeling the hate and the mocking and the attacks both mental and pohysical? Having the fear of not being accepted or if their parents do accept them then their parents going to jail and them being taking away? I am pretty sure those motivations happen a lot more the "Hey I cant wait to be a martyr for the cause!"

The problem is people hate talking about Trans suicide. Because A they dont believe/care that it is happening. They want to ignore it and downplay it. B they are very uncomfortable with the subject C Just dont care about some Trans killing themselves.

Conservatives want policies that cause consequences that they want to stop you from talking about.

[worstblogever]

On this date, in both 2014, as well as in 2015, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Allen West, the former Tea Party Congressman from Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, who was forced into retirement by the United States Army for detaining an Iraqi policeman and using advanced interrogation techniques like threatening to shoot him in the head, and firing the gun next to his ear, causing him to lose half his hearing. Attempting forced confessions in this matter is frowned upon in most rational circles, because we don’t live in the universe of Jack Bauer, you see. In his one term in Congress, Allen West said things like, “Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the Democratic Party”, “take your message of equality of achievement and take it to Europe, to the bottom of the sea, to the North Pole, but get it out of the United States of America”, that people with Obama bumper stickers were “a threat to the gene pool”, that the Democratic Party is “a 21st Century plantation”, that there were “78 to 81 communists in the Democratic Party”, that “George Bush got snookered into going into some mosque, taking his shoes off, and saying Islam was a religion of peace”, and chastised the Pentagon for saying “tolerance and inclusion” were a key to mission success. Allen West backed a military strike in Benghazi, over a year after the attack on the diplomatic compound there, as if the perpetrators were still holed up and waiting. He’s also convinced the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our government, that President Obama is a secret “Islamist”, and that any Muslim advocacy group is secretly a terrorist organization. Oh, and illegal immigrants are being used to spread diseases through the population as a biological warfare experiment by the Obama administration, that gay marriage will lead to a civil war, and complained when the state of South Carolina moved to take down the Confederate flag at the state capitol, blaming it on “Islamofascists and socialists” who were attempting to re-write history “just like ISIS and the Taliban”. He is, for lack of a better term, a goddamn lunatic. While Allen West has been booted from office for half a decade, yet he still has a following in Tea Party circles, who bizarrely think he’s telling it as it is. West has gone on to start his own “journalism” site online, that exists simply as a platform for West to editorialize world events through his own paranoid, deranged prism.

On this date in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” presented profiles of the former U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 6TH Congressional District, Mark Walker. Mark Walker was a newcomer to politics, only formerly serving as a pastor before jumping into politics in 2014, and during a town hall, he derided Islam, saying, “You can’t have a religion of peace when you’ve got nearly a billion” – that’s with a “b” – “people chopping off heads all over the country.” He also talked of impeaching President Obama for things he never did and will never do, like refusing to leave office, instituting Sharia Law, and “spending billions on vacations” (Obama spent less time on vacation than any president in decades). Walker also casually discussed going to war with Mexico to stop border crossings (because that wouldn’t make more people flee there), saying the military along the border could "laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets". He felt war with Mexico would be okay because "We've done it before." Ah, a pastor willing to go to war over immigration, just like Jesus would have wanted. Walker also made a threat to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood funding, and his belief that any criticism of North Carolina’s HB2 law was “bullying” and perpetuating the myth that transgendered citizens are assaulting women in public bathrooms. During the GOP Primary in 2014, Pastor Walker, not surprisingly, stated his absolute dedication to being pro-life, without exceptions. Once he got to the general election of course, he suddenly DID believe in exceptions for rape and incest. His voting record once he got to office indicates his primary stance was his true one. On June 21st, 2016, as House Democrats staged a sit-in on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after the largest mass shooting in modern history in Orlando, trying to force Speaker Paul Ryan and Republicans to vote on legislation to make sure that those on the no-fly-list for being suspected terrorists could also not by firearms to carry out terror attacks…Paul Ryan attempted to hide the GOP's embarrassment by cutting C-SPAN cameras filming the sit-in, only to discover Democrats were filming it on Periscope, and providing live-feeds on the internet. Mark Walker wasn't going to take the protest in stride, and got on Twitter to shame the Democrats for their gun control support, by comparing their move to the REAL masters of the sit-in, who fought during the Civil Rights era: "Calling this a sit-in is a disgrace to Woolworth's. They sat-in for rights. Dems are 'sitting-in' to strip them away." There was just one humungous problem with that line of attack... one of the leaders of the Democratic sit-in was Georgia Congressman John Lewis. As in, civil rights hero John Lewis, who crossed the bridge in Selma only to be clubbed in the head by police, and actually SAT at the Woolworth's lunch counter that Mark Walker was referencing during his social media white-splaining. Mark Walker likes to get on social media to focus on pressing issues lLike to complain about “government waste” evidenced by the installation of small ramps near the reflecting pool in our nation’s capitol so that ducklings can get in and out without drowning. A soul so compassionate, he’d rather see dead baby animals on his way to work than have any solution created with taxpayer dollars. A man who is only pro-life as it applies to fetuses, and not any living being. Walker’s fanaticism has even angered his own Republican colleagues, including during the brief search for a new House chaplain in April, when Walker requested candidates have “adult children and wives”. That ended up having him being forced to leave the committee to pick the next chaplain because he just effectively admitted he wanted to disqualify anyone who was Catholic, off hand, given their vows of chastity making the whole “wife or kid” prerequisite impossible. Apparently he’s only tolerant of fellow Baptists, at this point. Mark Walker opted to not run for re-election in 2020, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that he was implicated in a corruption probe by federal investigators. He is believed to have accepted $150,000 for his campaign in a bribery scheme to force North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey to replace his deputy.

On this date in 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Sammy Gindi, a 2020 candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District. He is of course, yet the latest in our long line of Qanon conspiracy theory supporters who were running for Congress in 2020, but that was far from the only conspiracy theory he spread on social media. It seems Gindi’s campaign strategy, which was, “troll a lot and wish death on the left”. That isn’t an exaggeration, as he posted this gem while discussing his “pro-life exceptions” on Twitter in April of 2020, writing, “I am 100% anti-abortion. Unless it comes to liberals. Please do the rest of America a favor and do not breed.” Gindi also managed to spread the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was suffering from late-stage Alzheimers, and other anti-Islamic conspiracy theories about Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, falesley claiming, “If anyone knows Arabic, she is saying Praise Allah, just like suicide bombers who yell Allah Akbar before blowing themselves up. “She is literally saying praise god for many Americans dying. How did we get such a unabashed traitor in the house?” Sammy Gindi literally got zero votes as a write-in candidate in the GOP Primary. Yes, this dips*** couldn’t even be bothered to remember to vote for himself. And it’s not like winning the primary was a high bar to clear, considering his opponent, Chrisitian Onuoha defeated him with only 504 votes himself. We think that means this would be his only run for office. And it will be harder for him to troll, since he was enough of a dips*** that Twitter has banned his account. As he as that irrelevant these days, we will set aside his profile at this time to cover another wacky Republican today instead. (Current crazy/stupid scoreboard, is now 1123-55, since this was established in July 2014.

[worstblogever]

Madison Cawthorn
Welcome to what is the 1123rd original profile here at “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”, where we’ll be profiling Madison Cawthorn, the sitting U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, first elected in the 2020 elections based on having been the protegee of former Congressman Mark Meadows, who’s currently trying to avoid jail time on seditious conspiracy charges while serving as the final Trump White House Chief of Staff. Cawthorn'is brief time in the spotlight was a cavalcade of terrifying authoritarianism only dwarfed by his incredible talent for self-owns.

Let’s begin with what we knew about this doofus before he got elected to office.

Alright, so leading off, there’s the mystery of the accident that left an 18 year old Cawthorn paralyzed, when his friend fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his BMW while Cawthorn with his feet up on the dashboard at the time. Cawthorn’s told a version of events where his friend “left him to die in a fiery tomb”, but the story seems to be that after crashing and paralyzing Cawthorn, his friend pulled him from the vehicle. When a disputed account emerged, Cawthorn’s version of how he was paralyzed just kept changing, including that he was “dead at the scene”, or that he “has no memory” of what happened. While Cawthorn claimed the accident was the cause of him being denied a chance to serve in the Naval Academy, it had already rejected him as a candidate before he was paralyzed.

Cawthorn then attended Patrick Henry College, studying political science, and managed a “D” average, and while he attributed his difficulties to still recovering to the accident, women on campus seemed to think there was a bigger issue that he managed to sexually harass a score of them in his brief time at the school, and the ladies were openly warning each other to not accept rides from him, as he would keep them locked in the vehicle with them and start asking inappropriate questions and groping them.

A reputation for being a sex pest and pathological liar was exactly what Mark Meadows liked about young Madison (and remember, Meadows had other aides that were sexually harassing colleagues), and he welcomed him into his office as a Congressional intern. During which time in 2017, Madison Cawthorn took a vacation to Europe, and decided on taking a nice little tourist stop at the Eagle’s Nest, which is, y’know, the castle where Adolf Hitler hid out through a lot of World War II. In an Instagram post from there, Cawthorn referred to Hitler by the honorific “The Fuhrer” and described the stop on his vacation as something “on his bucket list”, which was pretty concerning, frankly.

Meadows made Cawthorn his heir apparent when he marched off to work in the Trump White House to work on the coup attempt, and helped Cawthorn advance out of the GOP Primary by squeaking into a runoff with Lynda Bennett, and then pushed Cawthorn past her by labelling Bennett a “Never Trumper”. While the press started reporting on all of the above things that were a strong hint as to why Cawthorn should not be elected to Congress, he responded to the criticism by starting a website dedicated to attacking a journalist and claiming that he was working with Democratic Senator Corey Booker to “ruin white males running for office”, which didn’t make his swearing up and down that he wasn’t a Neo-Nazi or white nationalist sound any better.

And then, once in office, he amassed a voting record like this:

• January 6th, 2021: Madison Cawthorn votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
• January 13th, 2021: Rep. Cawthorn votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party doesn't feel like they should be accountable for failed coups.
• February 4th, 2021: Madison Cawthorn votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
• February 24th, 2021: Rep. Cawthorn sponsors the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2021, which would be a white nationalist’s wet dream, as it’s an unconstitutional attempt to ignore the part of the 14th Amendment that guarantees birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.
• February 25th, 2021: Cawthorn votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Cawthorn votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
• March 3rd, 2021: Madison Cawthorn votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: Cawthorn votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
• March 17th, 2021: Rep. Cawthorn votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm.
• May 19th, 2021: Madison Cawthorn votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
• May 20th, 2021: Cawthorn is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
• June 29th, 2021: Cawthorn is one of 8 Republicans who travel to the U.S./Mexico border to do photo-ops to stir up anti-immigrant furor, but also appear on camera with Capitol insurrectionist Anthony Aguero, as if he wasn’t a part of an attack on Congress less than six months prior.
• November 5th, 2021: Madison Cawthorn votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
• May 18th, 2022: Madison Cawthorn is one of 192 Republicans who vote against HR 7790, to create supplemental funding for infant formula (while claiming to be pro- life).
• May 18th, 2022: Rep. Cawthorn votes against HR 350, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act, because these days, a plank of the Republican Party is ostensibly domestic terror.
• May 19th, 2022: Cawthorn votes against HR 7688, a bill which would help prevent gas companies from gouging customers on prices.
• July 15th, 2022: Madison Cawthorn votes against House Amendment 262, which would require the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and Secretary of Defense to publish a report on the infiltration of American law enforcment by Neo-Nazis and white supremacists, offer measures to be taken to remove them from their ranks, and prevent further infiltration by others.
• July 19th, 2022: Rep. Cawthorn is one of 157 Republicans who vote against the “Respect for Marriage Act”, which would codify same sex marriage into law nationally.
• July 21st, 2022: Cawthorn is one of 195 Republicans who vote against the Right to Contraception Act, which codified the right of Americans to have access to birth control.

fff

[worstblogever]

Now, while that voting record is appalling, that was not what brought about Cawthorn’s undoing. It’s the dumb ass things he would say out loud that seemed to eventually be too much for him to survive at the voting booth.

There was a question of if he would even be able to run again because of his participation in the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6th, and that had some of his constituents file a legal challenge to him being able to run for office in North Carolina because he “took part in an insurrection”, which would be a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, written to keep the Confederates out of political office after the Civil War. During the attack, he opined that the domestic terrorists storming the Capitol Building “have some fight”, He also followed up on his vote to not certify the results after the Capitol Attack by accusing those Republicans who didn’t fall into line with Trump’s coup attempt as being “spineless cowards”. Also, considering he was fundraising on spreading conspiracy theories about non-existent election fraud to his supporters, that isn’t a big reach.

So… yeah, this dips*** was really into sedition, and kept gaslighting the American people, claiming that a “Democratic machine” of “agitators strategically placed” inside the crowd were the ones that drove the mob to attack. He was still raving about election fraud as late as August of 2021, showing no remorse, and claiming there would be further “bloodshed” and that he would “pick up arms against a fellow American” if changes were not made to our elections (that statistically have no significant voter fraud).

By October of 2021, Cawthorn was truly going full-on toxic white nationalist, begging American mothers to raise “monsters” that would not be “de-masculated”. Y’know, normal rhetoric. But what do you expect from a guy so committed to his own toxic masculinity that he pulls his wheelchair up to trees and starts punching them to prove what a really big, big man he really is?

When Russia, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, furthered their war in Ukraine in early 2022, Cawthorn yet again showed his love for an authoritarian dictator (Hitler, Trump, and now Putin), calling Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskyy a “thug”, and bemoaning that the Ukrainian government was too “woke” and promoting liberal ideologies.

Cawthorn apparently thought laws shouldn’t apply to him and tried to improve his bonafides with gun enthusiasts by twice during his Congressional career, getting caught on two separate occasions trying to sneak a gun onto an airplane. As one does.

But then, with folks on the left disgusted with Madison Cawthorn, conservatives began to realize what a deranged little dips*** they had in their ranks. The first moment probably being when Cawthorn, unprompted in an interview, began to talk about “sexual perversion” in Washingtoin, DC, mentioning Republican colleagues i having invited him to orgies, and that one colleague asked him if he wanted to do “key bumps of cocaine” with him. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Whip Steve Scalise came with a ruler to rap him across the knuckles, hoping this would be the end of him embarrassing the party. Some members, like North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, threw him under the bus by pointing out he had violated the STOCK Act and committed insider trading by working with a company to create “Let’s Go Brandon” themed bitcoin.

But oh, the worst was yet to come.

In late April of 2022, photos surfaced of a drunken Cawthorn in his wheelchair on a cruise wearing women’s lingerie over his clothes. For someone who thumps his chest about being “de-masculated”, this was perhaps not a good look.

But the real straw that broke the camel’s back… In May 2022… right before the GOP Primary, a video emerged of a younger Madison Cawthorn “wrestling” with his cousin, Stephen Smith, and thrusting his exposed penis into his cousin’s face. Which, that might explain why Cawthorn for some reason had funnelled $141,000 of taxypayer money and campaign cash towards Smith, where the real “work” he was doing for Cawthorn was “don’t tell anybody I was trying to use you as a c*** coaster”. There’s already the old saying in conservative politics to “never get caught in bed with a dead girl or live boy”, and Cawthorn broke that rule… plus, there’s the incestuous angle to boot.

After all that publicity, Madison Cawthorn was defeated in the 2022 GOP Primary for his seat by Chuck Edwards by about 1300 votes. We don’t think he’s got much of a future in conservative politics, given all those embarrassing photos and video, and he’ll need a couple years of time for people to forget the image of him thrusting his junk in his own cousin’s face.